tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post3405227481813061513..comments2024-03-16T07:13:50.487-07:00Comments on Lost Live Dead: July 19-20, Los Angeles Coliseum Stadium: Eric Clapton/Grateful Dead (didn't happen)Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-47749239678552910192016-03-15T09:04:01.002-07:002016-03-15T09:04:01.002-07:00So paid attendance for the weekend could have at l...So paid attendance for the weekend could have at least theoretically been 200,000 plus.<br /><br />"Playing In The Band">"It's A Sin">"Badge">"Playin", anyone?Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-37883778623391826722016-03-15T09:02:04.172-07:002016-03-15T09:02:04.172-07:00Correspondent Doug writes in to point out that I p...Correspondent Doug writes in to point out that I probably greatly underestimated the capacity of LA Coliseum at "just" 80,000:<br /><br />You say that EC and the Dead might have drawn 80,000, and that's a reasonable estimate. But the way you phrase it is that the venue had "a capacity of about 80,000." That struck me as low for "capacity."<br /><br />According to the venue's history page,<br />On March 29, 2008, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox set a Guinness World Record for the largest attendance ever at a baseball game with a crowd of 115,300. Other historic events include Billy Graham’s appearance in 1963 in front of 134,254 (still an all-time Coliseum record)…<br /><br />http://www.lacoliseum.com/index.php/coliseum-history/<br /><br />I'm sure that setting up a stage for EC and GD would take more space than for a 1963 Billy Graham Crusade! But a stage down at the Peristyle end of the stadium (the east), even with a 1974 sound system (the Wall of Sound debuted in March and this would've been May), I think they could've tried to fit 100,000 in. I've been in a USC-UCLA football crowd in that venue, and with the usual east-end bleachers removed, the crowd was above 90,000 with no spectators on the field.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-48793710274400377432014-10-09T02:48:43.074-07:002014-10-09T02:48:43.074-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04160321148710420968noreply@blogger.com